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A team of nine scientists from leading Egyptian medical schools and universities have found that one in every 50 children in America have metabolic brain dis...
With the help of a small stool, Mercy Carrion clambers onto an examination table. The obese 50-year-old woman stands just 115.6 cm (3 feet, 9.5 inches) tall....
Does the human soul transcend the lifetime of the body it inhabits? Do humans even have souls? If we do, what happens to that soul after we die?
Big questio...
While there are advantages to hereditary testing, it’s imperative to remember that there are additionally impediments. A positive outcome from disease heredi...
Hereditary testing is a sort of clinical trial that recognizes changes in chromosomes, qualities, or proteins. The aftereffects of a hereditary test can affi...
The puzzle of the origin of the Incas may finally be solved since scientists have conducted significant DNA study on the descendants of emperors.
Scientists...
Ever since the days of Homer, Greeks have long idealized their Mycenaean “ancestors” in epic poems and classic tragedies that glorify the exploits of Odysseu...
In the United States, despite high hopes, our health-care system still generally operates as a one-size-fits-all model. Some refer to this as a population mo...
About half of all medical patients get a drug, in any given year, that could interact with their genes and cause serious side effects.
Inexpensive gene test...
The future of any society depends on its ability to foster the healthy development of the next generation. Extensive research on the biology of stress now sh...
How has religion held up under the scrutiny of modern science? Not well, according to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who believes the only reason re...
In one of the most memorable scenes from the 1999 blockbuster hit The Matrix, the antagonist, Agent Smith, a sentient computer program, interrogates rebel ...
We are only beginning to unravel the genetic and biochemical basis of mental illness — a vague term including conditions as diverse as anxiety, depression, a...
Biologist Ethan Bier runs a laboratory at the University of California, San Diego where fruit flies are used to help unravel the processes that lead to some ...
There is no more important topic in the social sciences than sex. The truth of this assertion is linked to two indisputable facts: sex often produces babies,...
PATIENT NUMBER TWO was born to first-time parents, late 20s, white. The pregnancy was normal and the birth uncomplicated. But after a few months, it became c...
AIDS patients must endure a lifetime of drugs because the viru...
There’s a reason the image of the floundering, scared, shaky post-teen struggling to enter adulthood is a cliché. Between moving out of your parent’s home, g...
In the first chapter of , Charles Darwin identified roughly a dozen body parts that he gleefully described as “useless, or nearly useless.” Darwin’s catalog ...
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have genetically modified common soil bacteria to produce nanowires capable of conducting electrici...
Clinical anxiety affects up to 30 percent of Americans who are in great need of better treatments with fewer side effects. A study from Boston Children’s Hos...
Having your personal genetic makeup analysed seems a mere mouse click away these days.
Growing numbers of medical service providers offer genetic tests that...
Digital data, including videos, photos and text collected by devices is expected to hit 44 trillion gigabytes by 2020. At its current rate, the world is prod...
A group of 25 scientists on Thursday proposed an ambitious project to create a synthetic human genome, or genetic blueprint, in an endeavor that is bound to ...